At 12:25 AM +0100 5/2/06, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I have a system that was installed as FC3, and has been extensively
> reconfigured (added outside repos, etc) and did some source-level
> builds and installs.
>
> I'm hoping to find a path to upgrade to FC5, rather than having to
> note all my config changes, save all my data, install, reconfigure,
> and then restore my data.
>
> Can this be done?
It certainly can be done, by upgrading to FC-4 and then to FC-5.
I'm not sure if it can be done in one step,
but I doubt if you will lose anything by trying.
I did it in one step. I used the CD installer, not a yum upgrade. I made
a backup first, and then made a copy of my FC3 partition and made sure that
worked, and upgraded that. The original FC3 is still there. There have
been a few odd things, such as not having beagle installed (though
libbeagle is installed) and having all my old kernels deleted, even those
for booting the original FC3 partition, and I did clean up the various
.rpmnew files.
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